Recent discussions on the abolition of patents for inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands : $b Evidence, speeches, and papers in its favour
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Recent discussions on the abolition of patents for inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands : $b Evidence, speeches, and papers in its favour
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9. If the author of any work of fine art in which there shall
be subsisting Copyright, after having become divested of such
Copyright, or if any other person, not being the proprietor for
the time being of the Copyright in any work of fine art, shall
by any means unlawfully repeat, copy, imitate, or otherwise
multiply for sale, hire, exhibition, or _distribution_, or
cause or procure to be repeated, copied, imitated, or otherwise
multiplied for sale, hire, exhibition, or distribution,
any such work, or the design thereof, _or any part of such
design_, or, knowing that any such repetition, copy, or other
imitation has been unlawfully made, shall _import_ or export
into or out of _any part of the British dominions_, or sell,
publish, let to hire, exhibit, or distribute, or offer for
sale, hire, exhibition, or distribution, or cause or procure
to be so imported, or exported, or sold, published, let to
hire, distributed, or offered for sale, hire, exhibition, or
distribution, any unlawful repetition, copy, or imitation of
any such work, or of the design thereof, such person for every
such offence shall forfeit to the registered proprietor for the
time being of the Copyright thereof a sum not exceeding twenty
pounds, and not less than two pounds, for every first offence,
and not less than five pounds, for every subsequent offence, &c.
11. All repetitions, copies, or imitations of any work of fine
art, or the design thereof, wherein there shall be subsisting
Copyright under this Act, and which, contrary to the provisions
of this Act, shall have been made in any foreign State, are
hereby absolutely prohibited to be imported into any part of
the British dominions, except by or with the consent of the
registered proprietor of the Copyright thereof, or his agent
authorised in writing; and if the registered proprietor for the
time being of any such Copyright or his agent shall declare,
_or if any officer of Her Majesty’s Customs shall suspect_,
that any goods imported are prohibited repetitions, copies,
or imitations of any such work of fine art, or of the design
thereof, then _such goods may be detained_, unpacked, and
examined by the officers of Her Majesty’s Customs.
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